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HOOK AN AGENT WITH YOUR QUERY AND FIRST PAGES!
 | Robert Lee Brewer
Senior Content Editor, Writer's Digest Writing Community
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I hope your start to 2017 has been as productive as mine; somehow we're already into spring. While being able to finish projects is key, the beginning can help set the tempo in ways that pay off later on down the road, whether we're talking about the productivity of a week or year, the time on a road race, or the success of your book with agents.
Let's face it, agents don't get paid to read manuscripts in the slush pile. As a result, they're making quick decisions whether to read on-often based on the query and first few pages and sometimes even the opening page alone. So how does a writer hook an agent in the time it takes to read this newsletter?
Luckily, Writer's Digest has the Get a Literary Agent: How to Catch an Agent's Interest With Your Query and First Pages boot camp to answer that very question!
In the boot camp, literary agents from New Leaf Literary & Media will lead a 60-minute online tutorial to writers, provide personalized feedback on attendees' queries and opening pages, answer specific questions on the Writer's Digest University discussion boards, and more!
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WRITER'S DIGEST BLOGS
WritersDigest.com is the top online resource for writers online-regardless of where they are in their writing journeys. The site offers a lot of great content, including continually updated posts from a variety of writing-related blogs.
Here are a few recent posts: Looking for a quick gift for the writer in your life?
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WRITER’S MARKET PODCAST
Have you been listening to the Writer's Market podcast? If not, get with the program; it's free and available to all. Click to continue.
Each episode is hosted by WritersMarket.com editor Robert Lee Brewer and WritersDigest.com editor Brian A. Klems and features interviews with publishing and media professionals who are hand-selected for their ability to provide freelance writers with advice to find more success with their writing and freelancing goals.
Here's a recap of the most recent episodes: - How to Juggle a Freelance Writing Career & Writing a Novel With Jessica McCann. Freelance writer and novelist Jessica McCann shares actionable advice on how to find and grow freelance work, transition through different phases of a writing career, and so much more!
- New Year’s Resolutions, How to Stay on Track & More. Robert and Brian discuss their resolutions for 2017, how they’ve fared in the past, what’s worked, what hasn’t, and how writers can make the most of 2017.
- Copyrights, Defamation of Character, & Contracts Explained with Attorney Amy Cook. Attorney Amy Cook discusses what to look for in book contracts, how to handle copyright issues, when to change names and locations in stories, and more!
Look for one to two new podcast episodes each month.
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PERFECT YOUR NOVEL
Literary agents expect a polished manuscript when they read sample pages and chapters. With the Writer's Digest Advanced Novel Writing course, writers don't have to tackle the process alone!
Over 15 weeks, novelists will work through their manuscripts 10,000 words at a time (in 3-week segments) with their course instructor and online classmates. At the end, each participant will have up to 50,000 words written and revised—with plenty of feedback on the manuscript.
This course is not for beginners. Rather, it's for writers who are ready to get published and want specific feedback on what's working—or not—with their manuscripts. This is the final ascent to publication!
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